WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Americans
injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem cannot seize ancient
Persian artifacts from a Chicago museum to satisfy a $71.5 million court
judgment against Iran, which they had accused of complicity in the
attack.
The
justices, in an 8-0 ruling, upheld a lower court's decision in favor of
Iran that had prevented the plaintiffs from collecting on the judgment,
which Tehran has not paid, by obtaining antiquities held at the
University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. The important Persian
cultural artifacts, on loan from Iran to the museum since the 1930s,
include clay tablets boasting some of the oldest writing in the world.
Justice Elena Kagan did not participate in the decision.
Source: Yahoo News
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